On Mar 10, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and it turns out that his sed (the very same bloody sed which makes
> writing config.status a real challenge) doesn't seem to support the
> alternation at all
Yup, that's right. Alternation is not portable for sed.
> Of course too, we can factor everything into a single egrep pattern,
> but this is soooo maintainer unfriendly! I'd like to keep a readable
> pattern, not a big monster.
How about writing a shell snippet in configure.in that outputs the
egrep regexp?
expr="_AC_|^AC_TRY"
for e in \
ARG_VAR \
CHECK_"(DECL|FILE|FUNC|HEADER|MEMBER|PROG|SIZEOF|TYPE)S?" \
...
do
expr="$expr|^AC_$e\$"
done
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